(press release, 4/20) Amazon today announced Kindle Library Lending, a new feature launching later this year that will allow Kindle customers to borrow Kindle books from over 11,000 libraries in the United States. Amazon is working with OverDrive, the leading provider of digital content solutions for over 11,000 public and educational libraries in the United States, to bring a seamless library borrowing experience to Kindle customers.

No Shelf Required refers to LITA post: A joint Poudre River Public, Front Range Community College, and Colorado State University libraries committee has released a report on the state of eBooks and eReaders. The purpose of the study was to gain a better understanding of this rapidly-developing topic, and to make recommendations aimed at serving the customers of each library.

Potash discusses libraries, the HarperCollins issue, and the Google Book Settlement. The interview runs about 4 minutes. While contending he has libraries at heart, they also distribute for Borders, B&N, BooksaMillion as well as directly on behalf of publishers

"A recent University of Washington study interviewed 39 first-year graduate students in the university’s Department of Computer Science & Engineering, which participated in a pilot study of Amazon’s Kindle DX (a large-screen e-reader). By seven months into the study, fewer than 40% of the students did their schoolwork on the Kindle. The problem: the Kindle has poor note-taking support, doesn’t allow for easy skimming, and makes it difficult for students to look up references (in comparison with computers and textbooks)."

The world of content is changing quickly; how do eBooks impact libraries? A tipping point is upon us, are libraries screwed? And if so, what can we do about it? Part 1 of a 2 Part youtubeification of Eli's talk at the Library Journal / School Library Journal eBook summit: Libraries at the Tipping Point, held September 29, 2010. Featuring the live audio from the sessions and the slides as Keynote intended!

Note that the Wisconsin Public Library Consortium (the coop that contracts for Overdrive downloadable audio, video and ebooks) has online training opportunities prior to the Summit. Participants should become familiar with Overdrive as a context for downloadable ebook discussions.

Telereads 4/28 article with links to other commentary, positive and negative on Penguin's announced BookCountry, where authors of genre fiction can post their works for the attention of enthusiasts, editors, and publishers. They apparently hope to rival, or at least make inroads into Amazon's self-pub turf.

The first half of a two-part series on library e-book lending, writer Erik Christopher considers the models offered to librarians by the United States’ two largest e-book retailers, Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.

The first half of a two-part series on library e-book lending, writer Erik Christopher considers the models offered to librarians by the United States’ two largest e-book retailers, Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.

NYT article, "The lofty effort, the Digital Public Library of America, counts a long list of heavyweights among its supporters, including librarians from major universities and officials from the National Archives and the Library of Congress. Some of the nation’s largest philanthropic foundations have said they were interested in financing the project, though its total cost has not been determined."

"AcademicPub, a division of SharedBook, has introduced a service that enables instructors to create digital and print texts by compiling materials from multiple sources: copyrighted works, faculty-created material, and resources the company has in its own library. The service also enables the instructor to collect royalties on the materials he or she personally provides in the textbooks."

The Taiga Forum is a community of academic library directors challenging the traditional boundaries in libraries. This is a list of "draft provocative statements" meant to encourage discussion at their next meeting. Included are: "users will find more information elsewhere," "on-demand access," and "bookless libraries are more successful."

The city is considering closing its original library and replacing it with a community center that would offer all the same features — except for the books. ...the University of Texas unveiled an engineering and technology library in September with no paper annals, but access to 425,000 e-books and 18,000 e-journal subscriptions.

Apr 1, 2011, 7:58 AM

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Changed but still critical: Bricks and mortar libraries in the digital ageView

For InterED, Association for the Advancement of International Education [AAIE]. Fall 2010. By Doug Johnson

AASL publication (low-res PDF version). Information literacy has progressed from the simple definition of using reference resources to find information. Multiple literacies, including digital, visual, textual, and technological, have now joined
information literacy as crucial skills for this century.

Includes an interesting video of Salmon Rushdie talking about the possible influence of video games on storytelling in which he suggests that some innovative authors/creators will begin to take advantage of the creative opportunities offered by books on devices with operating systems, particularly those with color display and the ability to display video and sound.

Apr 4, 2011, 8:34 AM

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A Guide For the Perplexed Part IV: The Rejection of the Google Books SettlementView

Summary paper from the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA--members include the American Library Association, Association of Research Libraries, and Association of College and Research Libraries) on the Google Books settlement rejection (3/24/11)

Journalist's perspective the change in influence on newspapers and other subscriptions by Kindle in favor of Android devices. Prospects for Amazon "app" store for an android based Kindle.

Mar 22, 2011, 11:59 AM

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Librarian in Black summary of keynote at Computers in Libraries Conf.View

Google Books engineer couldn't make it, so Roy Tenant, Dick Kaser, Stephen Abram, and Marshall Breeding served as a tag-team for the keynote. Various viewpoints indicates the uncharted waters for library e-content navigation

Blog "In the Library with the Lead Pipe" welcomes guest author Hugh McGuire, the founder of LibriVox.org, the world’s most prolific publisher of audiobooks. He talks about the future of libraries when content is free. [thanks, Tasha, for the lik]

Link to hour-long audio presentation from Digital Book World 2011. "Bringing together the publisher and library perspectives, this panel considers the major factors that must figure into a well-rounded ebook model—one that ultimately doesn’t cannibalize sales and also adequately serves the needs of public library users."

[Oh, my--could libraries do this? Only with enough bandwidth!] From Wired Epicenter. Using the first-sale doctrine as the "loophole," they essentially rent you a DVD player and the DVD and stream it to you. Goes out of beta 3/17/11. How long before the studios quash this?

[arc hived Webinar] Can eBooks Fit into the Print Book Paradigm: Publishers and eBook Lending LimitsView

Speakers: Henry Bankhead, Sarah Houghton-Jan, Mark Coker, Eli Neiburger, and Mary Minow. 1 hr. 14 min. Covers
* Is there true ownership of eBooks for libraries?
* Can libraries exist without ownership of eBooks?
* What is the best access model for eBooks?
* Is there a right of first sale that applies to eBooks?

Apr 13, 2011, 9:02 AM

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How eBook Catalogs at Public Libraries Drive Publishers’ Book Sales and ProfitsView

White paper by Overdrive on the impact of eBook lending on publishers’ sales and profits to demonstrate the ability of public libraries to drive sales of print and digital content

Turning the Page: The Future of eBooks examines trends in the U.S. and Europe from the publisher's perspective. Identifies market opportunities and developments for eBooks and eReaders, and makes recommendations for publishers, traditional retailers, online retailers, and intermediaries.

The new service option, to launch in the coming months, expands access to library content available through WorldCat Resource Sharing to include access to e-books from Ingram’s MyiLibrary e-book collection for a period of up to nine days. E-book loans are fee-based, set at 15 percent of the MyiLibrary price for access to the e-book. The fee is managed through the WorldCat Resource Sharing interlibrary loan Fee Management feature

(see related article "We're Back!" Lendle, one of the more prominent Kindle e-book sharing services, was decommissioned by Amazon, who revoked their access to their API, making access to the Amazon database impossible

John Nichols, former director of both the Winnefox Library System and Oshkosh Public Library (the resource library), commenting on the possible intent of the "same services" provision and the database exemption added in 2005 at the request of his library. From email response to John DeBacher

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Topic 5: Improving the ease of use for discovering and getting library e-books

Library sets up its own eBook management system based on Adobe Content ServerView

Douglas County Library (CO) decides to experiment with its own system for holding and "lending" ebooks. Later LaRue will describe their effort to obtain ebook content through individual publishers and alternative channels.